Chapter 19 - Aggression and Violence

Question 1

Aggression

Answer 1

Any behavior intended to harm another person who does not want to be harmed.

Question 2

Availability heuristic

Answer 2

The tendency to judge the frequency or likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.

Question 3

Catharsis

Answer 3

Greek term that means to cleanse or purge. Applied to aggression, catharsis is the belief that acting aggressively or even viewing aggression purges angry feelings and aggressive impulses into harmless channels.

Question 4

Hostile attribution bias

Answer 4

The tendency to perceive ambiguous actions by others as aggressive.

Question 5

Hostile expectation bias

Answer 5

The tendency to assume that people will react to potential conflicts with aggression.

Question 6

Hostile perception bias

Answer 6

The tendency to perceive social interactions in general as being aggressive.

Question 7

Punishment

Answer 7

Inflicting pain or removing pleasure for a misdeed. Decreases the likelihood that a behavior will be repeated.

Question 8

Relational aggression

Answer 8

Intentionally harming another person’s social relationships, feelings of acceptance, or inclusion within a group.

Question 9

Violence

Answer 9

Aggression intended to cause extreme physical harm, such as injury or death.